The Laws of Gravitation: Memoirs by Newton, Bouguer and Cavendish, Together with Abstracts of Other Important MemoirsAmerican book Company, 1900 - 160 Seiten |
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Airy Airy's altitudes apparatus Arthur's Seat attraction Baily Baily's balance ball Bertier bodies Bouguer calculated Cavendish Cavendish experiment centre centrifugal force Cetus corrections deflection determine diameter difference distance Divisions Time Point draw the arm earth effect equal error experiments Extreme points Divisions globe gravitation constant HENRY CAVENDISH hill Hutton inches Journ Jupiter la Condamine latitude length Lond magnetic Maskelyne masses mean density Meridian Altitudes method middle of vibration middle point midway position moment of inertia Motion of arm mountain moved to negative moved to positive moving the weights negative position observations pendulum Peru Phys Pichincha PIERRE BOUGUER placed planets plumb-line Point of rest position Extreme points positive position Poynting 185 proportion quantity of matter Quito radius ratio Reich Rozier Saigey Schehallien sea-level seconds-pendulum specific gravity sphere spherical Sterneck surface suspended temperature tion toises torsion torsion balance Weights moved wire
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Seite 14 - ... while they were yet in fluid masses, all the heavier matter subsided to the centre. Since, therefore, the common matter of our earth on the surface thereof is about twice as heavy as water, and a little lower, in mines, is found about three, or four, or even five times more heavy, it is probable that the quantity of the whole matter of the earth may be five or six times greater than if it consisted all of water; especially since I have before shewed that the earth is about four times more dense...
Seite 16 - Whence a sphere of one foot in diameter, and of a like nature to the earth, would attract a small body placed near its surface with a force 20000000 times less than the earth would do if placed near its surface; but so small a force could produce no sensible effect. If two such spheres were distant but by...
Seite 59 - Society, contrived a method of determining the density of the earth, by rendering sensible the attraction of small quantities of matter; but, as he was engaged in other pursuits, he did not complete the apparatus till a short time before his death, and did not live to make any experiments with it.
Seite 13 - That there is a power of gravity pertaining to all bodies, proportional to the several quantities of matter which they contain.
Seite 11 - Jupiter from the sun by one ^^^ part of the whole distance — that is, by a fifth part of the distance of the utmost satellite from the centre of Jupiter ; an eccentricity of the orbit which would be very sensible. But the orbits of the satellites are concentric to Jupiter, and therefore the accelerative gravities of Jupiter, and of all its satellites towards the sun, are equal among themselves.
Seite 15 - It is true that we may regard one body as attracting, another as attracted; but this distinction is more mathematical than natural. The attraction is really common of either to other, and therefore of the same kind in both.
Seite 11 - If, at equal distances from the sun, any satellite, in proportion to the quantity of its matter, did gravitate towards the sun with a force greater than Jupiter in proportion to his, according to any given proportion, suppose of...
Seite 61 - I resolved to place the apparatus in a room which should remain constantly shut, and to observe the motion of the arm from without, by means of a telescope; and to suspend the leaden weights in such a manner, that I could move them without entering into the room. This difference in the manner of observing, rendered it necessary to make some alteration in Mr.
Seite 12 - The power of gravity is of a different nature from the power of magnetism ; for the magnetic attraction is not as the matter attracted. Some bodies are attracted • more by the magnet ; others less ; most bodies not at all. The power of magnetism in one and the same body may be increased and diminished ; and is sometimes far stronger, for the quantity of matter...
Seite 13 - I answer, that since the gravitation towards these bodies is to the gravitation towards the whole earth as these bodies are to the whole earth, the gravitation towards them must be far less than to fall under the observation of our senses. 1052 COR. 2. The force of gravity towards the several equal particles of any body is reciprocally as the square of the distance of places from the particles; as appears from Cor.